Praises to the Twenty-One Taras — these well-known verses of praise have one verse for each of twenty-one forms of Tara and arose from the tantra known as “Offering Praise to Tara through Twenty-One [verses] of Homage” (Skt. Namastāraikaviṃśatistotra, Tib. སྒྲོལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་བ་ཉི་ཤུ་གཅིག་གིས་བསྟོད་པ་, Wyl. sgrol ma la phyag 'tshal ba nyi shu gcig gis bstod pa) which can be found in the Derge Kangyur, Volume 81 - pp.435-437.
Each of the twenty-one forms of Tara is dedicated to a specific activity and there are also different levels of meaning for each verse of homage. In addition, there are several traditions of iconography for these forms of Tara – the five main ones being the traditions of Suryagupta, Atisha, Sadhana-samucchaya, Longchen Nyingtik (Jikmé Lingpa) and Chokgyur Lingpa. The first three are from the Indian tradition and the last two are from the Tibetan terma tradition.
lyrics
ཨོཾ་རྗེ་བཙུན་མ་འཕགས་མ་སྒྲོལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།། Om je tsün ma phag ma dröl ma la chhag tshäl lo Om Homage to the Venerable Arya Tara.
ཕྱག་འཚལ་སྒྲོལ་མ་མྱུར་མ་དཔའ་མོ།། སྤྱན་ནི་སྐད་ཅིག་གློག་དང་འདྲ་མ།།
འཇིག་རྟེན་གསུམ་མགོན་ཆུ་སྐྱེས་ཞལ་གྱི།། གེ་སར་བྱེ་བ་ལས་ནི་བྱུང་མ།།
Homage to you, Tara, the swift heroine,
Whose eyes are like the instant flash of lightning, Whose water-born face arises from the blooming lotus Of Avalokiteshvara, protector of the three worlds.
Homage to you, Tara, whose face is like
One hundred full autumn moons gathered together, Blazing with the expanding light
Of a thousand stars assembled.
Homage to you, Tara, born from a golden-blue lotus,
Whose hands are beautifully adorned with lotus flowers,
You who are the embodiment of giving, joyous effort, asceticism, Pacification, patience, concentration and all objects of practice.
Homage to you, Tara, the crown pinnacle of those thus gone, Whose deeds overcome infinite evils,
Who have attained transcendent perfections without exception, And upon whom the sons of the Victorious Ones rely.
Homage to you, Tara, who with the letters Tuttara and Hum Fill the (realms of ) desire, direction and space,
Whose feet trample on the seven worlds,
And who are able to draw all beings to you.
Homage to you, Tara, venerated by Indra,
Agni, Brahma, Vayu and Ishvara,
And praised by the assembly of spirits, raised corpses, Gandharvas and all yakshas.
Homage to you, Tara, whose Trad and Phat
Destroy entirely the magical wheels of others.
With your right leg bent and left outstretched and pressing, You burn intensely within a whirl of fire.
Homage to you, Tara, the great fearful one,
Whose letter Ture destroys the mighty demons completely, Who with a wrathful expression on your water-born face Slay all enemies without an exception.
Homage to you, Tara, whose fingers adorn your heart
With the gesture of the sublime precious three;
Adorned with a wheel striking all directions without exception With the totality of your own rays of light.
Homage to you, Tara, whose radiant crown ornament, Joyful and magnificent, extends a garland of light, And who, by your laughter of Tuttara, Conquer the demons and all of the worlds.
Homage to you, Tara, who is able to invoke, The entire assembly of local protectors,
Whose wrathful expression fiercely shakes, Rescuing the impoverished through the letter Hum.
Homage to you, Tara, whose crown is adorned
With the crescent moon, wearing ornaments exceedingly bright. From your hair knot the buddha Amitabha, Radiates eternally with great beams of light.
Homage to you, Tara, who dwells within a blazing garland
That resembles the fire at the end of this world age;
Surrounded by joy, you sit with your right leg extended
And left withdrawn, completely destroying all the masses of enemies.
Homage to you, Tara, with hand on the ground by your side, Pressing your heel and stamping your foot on the earth; With a wrathful glance from your eyes you subdue
All seven levels through the syllable Hum.
Homage to you, Tara, O happy, virtuous and peaceful one, The very object of practice, passed beyond sorrow.
You are perfectly endowed with Svaha and Om, Overcoming completely all the great evils.
Homage to you, Tara, surrounded by the joyous ones, You completely subdue the bodies of all enemies; Your speech is adorned with the ten syllables,
And you rescue all through the knowledge-letter Hum.
Homage to you, Tara, stamping your feet and proclaiming Ture. Your seed syllable itself in the aspect of Hum
Causes Meru, Mandhara and the Vindya mountains
And all the three worlds to tremble and shake.
Homage to you, Tara, who holds in your hand The hare-marked moon like the celestial ocean. By uttering Tara twice and the letter Phat You dispel all poisons without an exception.
Homage to you, Tara, upon whom the kings of the assembled gods, The gods themselves and all kinnaras rely;
Whose magnificent armour gives joy to all,
You who dispel all disputes and bad dreams.
Homage to you, Tara, whose two eyes – the sun and the moon – Radiate an excellent, illuminating light; By uttering Hara twice and Tuttara, You dispel all violent epidemic diseases.
Homage to you, Tara, adorned by the three suchnesses, Perfectly endowed with the power of serenity,
You who destroy the host of evil spirits, raised corpses and yakshas, O Ture, most excellent and sublime!
རྩ་བའི་སྔགས་ཀྱིས་བསྟོད་པ་འདི་དང་།། ཕྱག་འཚལ་བ་ནི་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་གཅིག།།
Thus concludes this praise of the root mantra and the offering of the twenty-one homages.
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